<p>If I take Latin Roots the Fall of my junior year, will it help on the SATs? Any insight would REALLY be appreciated.</p>
<p>It will if you take an interest in it. You could learn all the roots but there is still a lot interpretation involved with deciphering words based on etymology. It’s not as formulaic as we’d probably like it to be. For example, the word “intelligent” comes from the preposition “inter” meaning in between + “legere” (to read). So how does “in between reading” have anything to do with being smart? </p>
<p>My point is that it’s not always as easy as putting 2 and 2 together. This kind of thing only really works if you are curious about words and where they come from. Otherwise it’s probably more efficacious to learn and add words to your vocabulary at a steady rate.</p>
<p>You’re better off looking up the words and learning them than taking a Latin course. If you already take a foreign language, that may or may not help with roots. I can honestly mention a few words that I remember very well because of my approximate three years of Spanish study. Facile/facilitate from fac</p>
<p>I think it’ll help very little. How are you on sentence completions now? Keep in mind that sentence completions make up just one part of the verbal section, and that there will only be a few words you might be unfamiliar with when you take the test. With that said, I think it’s better to just memorize the vocab. Latin roots might help, but I’ve found that they just provide hints–they don’t tell you what the word means, so it’s still quite possible to get the sentence completion wrong.</p>
<p>I agree with Islander4- spanish has helped me more with Grammar and where words come from in english more than anything.</p>
<p>I can attest that knowing Latin roots is better that not knowing anything. With that being said, I feel that by knowing Latin, it aids exponentially when determining the meanings of countless words that derive from that language. Latin is by far one of the most useful assets one can utilize in the CR section as well as in Writing (Grammar).</p>
<p>I must agree - my four years of Italian have definitely helped me. I was never amazing in it, but I can still pick out tons of words based on the roots. :)</p>
<p>same here though i took spanish for only a year, i still manage to gain my vocabulary 
but really it’s much faster to improve your study by simply study just the thing you need
secondary language does nothing more than help you remember it better…</p>